A taxi driver, an architect and the High Line projet, by Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin, chooses physical presence, walk and dance as prism to read the town. The body put in the space, the gesture and its rhythm reveal between the lines the one of the town and its architecture.

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"New York continues to occupy a special place in our collective imaginations, it is probably one of the cities most presented and represented in film production.

But the A taxi driver, an architect and the High Line project does not connect directly to that imagination.It chooses the body as a prism through which to read the city, the body placed in space, the movement and its rhythm revealing in its negative space that of the city, its architecture. Physical presence, walking and dance sharpen our gaze and allow us to discreetly highlight certain movemnts in the city, its masses and transformations.

A taxi driver, an architect and the High Line is a trilogy, a portrait of the city through three characters, their relationships to the space and to its architecture. The first two characters are a taxi driver (Philip Moore) and an architect (Rick Bell). The third character is a landmark, the High Line. We consider the High Line metaphorically as someone who travels daily through the city, revealing it, bringing about encounters between people and their personal stories. The films are a collection of physical memories, intimate stories and spaces. Each film veers between fiction, documentary, performance and poetry. We entered into a dialogue with each of the protagonists, seeking the chronology of their physical memories, their personal histories. Gestures, movements, trajectories were identified and re-launched in the city, placed in their normal context or displaced. Each action is part of the dialogue with the context, triggering a reading of the space from the space of the body. In counterpoint, the perspective on the city focuses on everyday activities, gestures linked to work, to the rhythm of the city. The project confronts the reality of spaces and actions." Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin